Director James Cameron reflected on one of his first films, “The Terminator,” and how elements of it have not stood the test of time.
The 70-year-old filmmaker called the action movie “pretty cringeworthy” on the 40th anniversary of its big premiere.
“I don’t think of it as some Holy Grail, that’s for sure,” Cameron told Empire during a recent interview. “I look at it now and there are parts of it that are pretty cringeworthy, and parts of it that are like, ‘Yeah, we did pretty well for the resources we had available.’”
”Just the production value, you know? I don’t cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write,” he continued. “You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness.”
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